Nathan Edwards
NovelKeys made a beige mouse to go with its beige keyboards.
1/3It’s color-matched to the Classic Beige keycaps used on the Underscore Edition keyboard Photo by Nathan Edwards / The Verge
Nathan Edwards
Senior Reviews Editor
Senior Reviews Editor
Nathan Edwards is The Verge‘s Senior Reviews Editor. He has been writing and editing reviews of computer hardware and consumer tech since 2007. He spent five years at Maximum PC building desktops and reviewing components, and seven at Wirecutter, where he was the first editor for PCs and home networking, and led beats including computing, mobile, networking, and peripherals. He enjoys mechanical keyboards, cargo bikes, making his life more complicated while trying to make it less complicated, and developing new hyperfixations. His French is getting better and his Osage is almost beginner-level. 𐓏𐓘𐓯𐓤𐓘͘
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There’s a new Ploopy in town.
Ploopy just announced the A Plus trackball, the successor to the open-source, 3D-printed Adept. It has six buttons, two dials, a wrist rest, and RGB LEDs. It goes on sale on August 19th starting at $99 CAD (about $71 USD). Ploopy.
Nathan Edwards
The biggest moments from Google’s Pixel 11 event.
We live blogged almost 90 minutes of a show that was, honestly, better than expected. Our video team cut it down to eight.
We’re ready for some bad jokes during Google’s celebrity-packed live show.
Jay Peters, Victoria Song and 3 more
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Don’t touch that dial!
The Made By Google keynote, hosted by Trevor Noah, kicks off at 6PM ET. Stay tuned to this website starting at 5:30PM for our live blog. Victoria Song will be there live, with Jay Peters, Jake Kastrenakes, and myself following remotely. Let’s see what happens.
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The Classic-TKL is one of my favorite keyboard kits, and now you don’t have to build it yourself
Nathan Edwards
Nathan Edwards
My spoon is too big.
If you said that in your head in a weird little voice, good news: Dropout is now streaming Don Hertzfeldt’s legendary animated films, from Rejected to World of Tomorrow. Paper Trail, which just won the short film category at the Annecy Festival, will be available September 1st.
Nathan Edwards
Mullvad’s cofounder gave $500K to Swedish populist party.
Swedish-language site Flamman reported that Daniel Berntsson gave 5 million Swedish kronor to the Örebro Party. The VPN company responded to the news on X, and Mullvad’s co-CEO Fredrik Strömberg told TechRadar “I don’t like that he made this donation,” but that “we will continue to protect the universal right to privacy.”
Nathan Edwards
“Let’s make a miracle computer out of garbage.”
At Aftermath, Chris Person (who else?) explains how to hack together a bootleg Steam Machine using a cheap castoff cryptomining GPU. It’s a high-effort, low-cost build made possible by 3D printing, open platforms, and a host of enthusiasts working together. And the power of Linux, of course.
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